Physical arbitrage that survives landed cost, scored for confidence, and routed to a vetted buyer — before the window closes. This is how a modern desk turns market noise into money it actually books.
What one corridor is really worth · why your price feed is costing you money · the four-step engine · reading the Opportunities Dashboard · the landed-cost stack that kills ghost spreads · exactly what Free shows you vs. what paid unlocks · a trader's first-week playbook.
A spread isn't a statistic — it's a cargo you either book or watch someone else book. Here's what a single move is worth on corridors ArbiTrade costs to landed value every day.
| Corridor | Net spread | One cargo | Margin on the table |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steel Scrap · HMS 1&2 · NL → Turkey | $29 / MT | ~10,000 MT vessel | ≈ $290,000 |
| Aluminium UBC · Germany → India | $260 / MT | ~400 MT lot | ≈ $104,000 |
| Battery Black Mass · Canada → S. Korea | $746 / MT | ~150 MT lot | ≈ $112,000 |
Illustrative, based on publicly reported spreads and typical cargo sizes — not real ArbiTrade trades. Your commercial terms decide the actual number.
Book one steel vessel a quarter and the platform has paid for itself hundreds of times over.
Margin doesn't wait. Miss the window and that $290k goes to whoever costed it and called the buyer first.
Kallanish, Davis Index, Fastmarkets, your broker Telegram groups — they tell you what a number did. Not one tells you whether the lane clears net of landed cost, or who will buy the container. So you rebuild the cost sheet by hand — and by the time it balances, the window's shut.
| To actually book the trade… | Price index | Broker Telegram | ArbiTrade |
|---|---|---|---|
| See the price move | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Know it clears net of freight, duty, inspection, FX | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Confidence score & sanctions flags | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Reach a verified buyer for the cargo | ✗ | ~ | ✓ |
| Route a structured RFQ in one click | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Do all of it before the window closes | ✗ | ~ | ✓ |
One loop runs the whole platform — from a raw price dislocation to a structured RFQ in a vetted buyer's inbox.
Models scan metals, scrap, battery black mass and steel continuously, flagging cross-border dislocations as corridors open.
Every corridor priced through freight, duty, inspection and FX. Only spreads that survive landed cost make the board.
Scored on data freshness, volatility and counterparty availability. Risk and sanctions flags applied automatically.
One click builds and dispatches a structured RFQ to curated recipients. Track responses, advance to deal, log the close.
Detect → Cost-model → Rank → Route
Every row has already cleared the cost stack. It's a shortlist of cargoes worth acting on — not a screen of raw quotes to sift.
| Commodity | Corridor | Net spread | Conf. | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Mass Li-ion mixed | Canada → S. Korea | $746 | High | Viable |
| Aluminium UBC | Germany → India | $260 | High | Viable |
| Copper Berry/Candy | UAE → India | $410 | Med | Watch |
| Steel HMS 1&2 | Netherlands → Turkey | $29 | High | Viable |
Illustrative historical corridors, costed exactly the way ArbiTrade costs a live one — not real trades.
Net spread — margin per tonne after freight, duty, inspection and FX: the number you can genuinely chase.
Confidence — Low / Med / High from data freshness, corridor volatility and counterparty availability.
Status — Viable = cleared the full stack and verification. Watch = still firming up.
The filter that separates ArbiTrade from a price screen. A spread only reaches your board if it survives every cost between the buy and the sell.
| Benchmark / basis price | origin USD/MT |
| + Ocean / inland freight | per corridor |
| + Duties & tariffs | destination |
| + Inspection & compliance | BIS · spec |
| + FX conversion | live feed |
| = Landed cost | true USD/MT |
| Sell − landed | = net spread |
Landed cost settles at $2,040/MT once freight, Indian import duty, BIS inspection and EUR/USD are folded in — a $260/MT net spread (12.8%), scored High.
On a ~400 MT lot that's ≈ $104,000 of real margin. Strip out the cost modelling and you'd have chased the headline gross number into a loss.
Evaluate the whole product for free. But the things that make money — live corridors, real-time signals, the ability to send an RFQ, and access to real counterparties — sit behind the upgrade.
| What makes you money | Free Preview | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Live, current corridors | Sample only | Live |
| Signal freshness | 48h delayed | Real-time |
| Send a structured RFQ | View-only | 25/mo → unlimited |
| Counterparty visibility | Public only | Curated → Full |
Pro is $199/mo. One booked UBC lot is ≈ $104,000 of margin. The tier isn't a cost — it's the cheapest line item in the trade. See all plans →
A production platform you can run a desk on right now, shipping continuously. Here's what's live, what's next, and where it's heading.
Net-of-landed-cost spread engine · confidence scoring with risk & sanctions flags · Opportunities Dashboard · structured RFQ Builder · five-tier counterparty routing · Telegram intelligence stream · Finance Readiness Indicator · analyst-vetted introductions · REST API + webhooks · daily Insights.
Real-time price & spread alerts · saved corridor watchlists · expanded corridor & commodity coverage · mobile dashboard · deeper deal-workspace analytics.
Automated LOI & documentation · broader API access · tighter trade-finance integrations · additional asset classes · portfolio-level corridor & P&L view.
You don't change how your desk works. You get a faster, cleaner way to find what's real and reach who matters.
Claim access. Start free, explore the full dashboard on illustrative corridors costed like live ones. Have an access code? Skip the waitlist.
Learn to read a row. Net spread, confidence and status tell you in seconds which corridors clear the stack and deserve your attention.
Upgrade the moment flow is real. Move to Pro or Execution for live corridors, the full RFQ Builder and deeper counterparty access. One booked cargo covers years of subscription.
Route your first RFQ. Click a viable signal, dispatch to vetted recipients, track responses, advance the deal — in your name, on your terms.
You open the dashboard to a shortlist of corridors that already survive landed cost, each one click from a vetted buyer. You spend your time booking margin — not rebuilding a spreadsheet the market already moved past.
ArbiTrade provides market intelligence, RFQ coordination, and counterparty discovery tools only. It does not execute trades, hold funds, take title, or guarantee pricing, execution, delivery, quality, payment, profit, or trade completion. Margin and cargo-value figures are illustrative, based on publicly reported market data, and are not real ArbiTrade trades. Users must conduct independent commercial, legal, customs, sanctions, regulatory, documentation, and counterparty diligence before entering any transaction.